Miss Marple, en vacances aux Antilles, se livre à sa distraction favorite : étudier les hôtes de son hôtel. Le major Palgrave ne cesse de l'accabler du récit de ses exploits. Mais le major parle trop. Il meurt. Pourquoi a-t-on tué cet inoffensif vieillard ? Miss Marple découvrira-t-elle le coupable ?

Le major parlait trop

Bien sûr, la retraite a ses charmes… Cependant, Hercule Poirot ne peut s’empêcher, de temps à autre, de reprendre du service, à condition, bien sûr, qu’il s’agisse d’une affaire hors du commun. Et quelque chose lui dit que cette curieuse lettre signée A.B.C. risque de stimuler ses petites cellules grises…

A. B. C. contre Poirot

Agatha Christie was already known as a crime writer when she accompanied her husband, Max Mallowan, to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s. She took great interest in his excavations, and when friends asked what her strange life was like, she decided to answer their questions in this book.

Come tell me how you live

After an accident on the stairs, Emily becomes convinced that one of her relatives is trying to kill her. On April 17th she writes her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he doesn't receive the letter until June 28th... by which time Emily is already dead.

Dumb witness

Quoi de plus reposant et tranquille qu'une croisiere sur le Nil ? Sauf quand on retrouve a bord le corps de Linnet Ridgeway tuee d'une balle dans la tete. Linnet avait tout pour elle, jeunesse, beaute, richesse... tout jusqu'a ce qu'elle perde la vie !Parmi les passagers, tous sous le choc d'une telle decouverte, se trouve Hercule Poirot, le celebre detective belge. Et voila que justement il se rappelle avoir entendu un homme dire au sujet de la victime: Je poserai bien mon pistolet contre sa tempe et j'appuierai sur la gachette ! Mais cette declaration, si elle n'est pas anodine, ne fait pas forcement de vous le coupable ideal."Traduit de l'anglais par Elise Champon et Robert Nobret""

Mort sur le Nil

Passager Pour Francfort

A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune.Shortly afterwards, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man’s sister-in-law who claims she has been warned by ‘spirits’ that Mrs Underhay’s first husband is still alive. Poirot has his suspicions when he is asked to find a missing person guided only by the spirit world. Yet what mystifies Poirot most is the woman’s true motive for approaching him…

Le flux et le reflux

How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting and the disappearance of top secert military plans? How did the bullet that killed Sir Gervase shatter a mirror in another part of the room? And who destroyed the "eternal triangle" of love involving renowned beauty, Valentine Chantry?Hercule Poirot is faced with four mystifying cases—Murder in the Mews, The Incredible Theft, Dead Man's Mirror and Triangle at Rhodes—each a miniature classic of characterisation, incident, and suspense.

Le miroir du mort

When nurse Amy Leatheran agrees to look after American archaeologist Dr Leidner’s wife Louise at a dig near Hassanieh she finds herself taking on more than just nursing duties – she also has to help solve murders. Fortunately for Amy, Hercule Poirot is visiting the excavation site but will the great detective be in time to prevent a multiple murderer from striking again?

Le major parlait trop

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